Wave slate is a roofing material made on the basis of an asbestos-cement mixture.
More recently, asbestos-cement slate was the most popular roofing material. But with the advent of new roofing materials on the building materials market, slate has lost its position very much. The newest analogues of slate made of plastic, bitumen, metal and many other materials and their combinations appeared. But still, today many consumers prefer slate. This is due not to the high price of slate as a roofing material. The second main point in the preference for slate is the novelty of other roofing materials, the properties and qualities of which have not yet been fully tested by time. Therefore, the consumer prefers the old proven slate, the reliability of which has been tested for decades. There are many facts about the operation of slate for 40 years or more in modern conditions and this is not the limit of use. In addition to durability, slate has other advantages – it is ease of installation, ease of repair and reconstruction of the roof, low cost of material and subsequent work.
Slate 8-wave is sheets made of asbestos cement, usually rectangular in shape, which have a wave profile. The manufacturing method consists of molding a plastic material (solution), which consists of chrysotile asbestos (about 15-20% of the total mass), cement grade M400-500 (about 85-90% of the total mass), water. Where chrysotile-asbestos is a reinforcing substance that holds a rather brittle cement creating a reinforcing filler of a fibrous structure.
We will talk in more detail about the method of manufacturing slate and its technical characteristics in the following material.
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